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Sogou bots and crawlers
Sogou runs a Chinese search engine owned by Tencent.
Sogou bots at a glance
- Sogou runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Search Engine Crawlers.
- Each Sogou bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.sogou.com
Every Sogou bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sogou web spider | Search Engine Crawlers | Search indexOfficial docs | Yes | Allow |
Block or allow all Sogou bots
The rules below name every Sogou token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Sogou bots
User-agent: Sogou web spider
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Sogou bots
User-agent: Sogou web spider
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Sogou bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Sogou web spider
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Sogou bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Sogou web spider)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Sogou bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Sogou web spider) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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